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I'm glad it's on film (and video)... otherwise no one would believe the poor guy! Yeah right... a huge whale 3 times the size of your boat breached right behind you while you were fishing.... blah, blah blah. :-)

:clap::clap: The boat looks nice and your work looks extra-clean. I did more reading on the hard-spot issue, and a couple people gave some advice that sounded good to me. The advice was that you wanted to avoid adding support members that only touch the hull in a small area... meaning, that...

@scook -- yours could be OK. I depends upon the size and type of anchor that someone wants to use. I guess the question is more for the O.P. to answer. That's really cool, @skunkBoat. Since my homemade bow pulpit will have to be built again (it warped), I think that I'll buy a roller...

And so I'm already learning! Years ago, I had purchased a hard cover book about boat maintenance and fiberglass repair written by Don Casey who was a big player in providing info from Boat U.S. The book spoke about hard spots... but the book was also heavily focused on *sail boats*, so I...

I'm looking forward to your experience, @ashokrags. I started adding an anchor roller myself, but it's still a work in progress. I think that the roller that I bought is a little too small, and I made a bow pulpit out of Maple wood, but I didn't seal it yet, and the wood warped from being...

Welcome!!! I'm lookin' forward to following your progress. I haven't done much fiberglass work either, but I've *read* a lot about it. One warning that I've seen is about the problems created by "hard spots". Basically, having your support structures directly flush with the hull can be a bad...

Hello Sir, I would like a gallery, please. I have an 1984 V20 with a cuddy. Thank you! P.S. -- I may not have reached 100 posts (yet)... but the 67 posts that I have are all quality posts! Moreover, I found my V in the classifieds on this forum and purchased it from the seller, so I have...

Towing mirrors for my truck (4Runner) There really are no good options for mirrors on a 4Runner, and my V20 is so big that I can’t see when backing up. I found a solution. I purchased some convex motor cycle mirrors off of Amazon Then I got an expanding rubber bushing with a nut in it...

Tower and Radar arch (first images) https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0l5VaUrzjGhqV;CF21F6F1-E929-4151-9937-71346991AD63 Here are some photos... at last! I will take better ones today and post them this weekend. (I'm hosting the photos on icloud in an apple photos album that is publicly...

Nope. I looked and most of the photos didn't post. I will take some on my phone tomorrow and try again.... I've got about 10 things goin' on at once! 1) I put in a bronze clam shell with a seacock, mounted a live well pump and a raw water washdown 2) I'm rewiring almost everything 3) 2nd...

Electrical Panels and rewiring I decided to start a mini-thread for each of my projects. This one is for the re-wiring which is coming along. I bought this switch panel, which has 8 switches with circuit breakers. It comes with stickers for each function and it can be back lit. The...

Tower with Rocket launchers... OK. The dual batteries are going in the back under the deck. Here's an update, and tease of things to come. I've got so many projects going at once, that it's hard for me to keep up! I put on a tower-in-a-box from Atlantic tower, and I LOVE it! It took me...

Nice! You've got real talent! I've never used a router before. I bought one about 10 years ago... and I bought a set of router bits too... then, after a year or two when I went to use it, I discovered that my router only holds 1/4" bits, but the set of bits I bought are all 1/2" -- Go...

That's really nice. I'm working on making one for my V20... we'll see how she turns out. I really love the way you extended the railing. I guess that was all custom work, huh? It looks great!

Raymarine autopilot... I'm getting the raymarine EV-150 Autopilot. It's a package that includes the pump, a 9-axis sensor, a hydraulic pump and a main control unit. List price is $2K. It also includes a control that has some buttons and rotary knob. It sounds sweet. The smaller EV-100...

So, the tower that I put up I didn't care for. It could shake too easily, and I don't think it was beefy enough. I thought about, what happens if a big swell throws someone off balance, and they grab the tower to catch themself.... and the thought that I didn't know if it would hold was...

I got PADI certified in the late 1990s. I finished my open water certification in Barbados, and I continued to dive for about 10 years before I gave it up. I loved diving in warm waters while on vacation... Barbados, Mexico and Hawaii on my honey moon. Seeing the reefs and sea life are the...

Oh yeah.... I buried some cash in *your* back yard too. Lemme know when you find it, and I'll give you half. :oh: Great to still have you around. I can't recommend trim tabs highly enough. The top two manufacturers are Bennett and Lenco. My impression is Lenco's strength is electric...

That's sound advice, and I did not know that the engine can support an aux charging wire, I will have to look in to that. For the usage. I plan to have one battery for start and bilge pumps, and the other as a house battery for everything else. That will give me the peace of mind that I can't...

Great stories. I had a little 2 HP evinrude... it went on an 11 foot jon boat that I used on a lake in MASS. I still have the motor... but haven't tried to run it in about 15 years or more... who knows, maybe it would work? I still have the jon boat too... but whenever I'm in MA, I usually...